This is a book that I read in fits and starts. Sometimes it really gripped me and I read page after page, but at other times it left me a little cold, and I didn’t care enough about the characters.
We get the dual stories of present day Lisbon, where a young girl is found dead on a beach, and the goings on during the second world war when a young German businessman is giving the task of exporting a substance called wolfram (more commonly known as tungsten), vital for tanks, back to the motherland.
Obviously their stories meet. The book has plenty of twists and turns, but somehow I just wasn’t completely taken with the characters. Not bad, but not enormously special.